The Syntropic Design Process
Workbook
LEARN + APPLY SYNTROPIC DESIGN AT YOUR OWN PACE
Learn to design the way Nature does— and build Coherence into everything you’re making.
What is the Syntropic Design Process Workbook?
A Regenerative / Whole-Systems Design Process, in your hands.
This Workbook is the same framework Syntropia uses with clients — distilled into a self-guided tool you can apply at your own pace to your own business, organization, land, or project.
It’s grounded in the 7 domains of whole-systems design, the 12 permaculture design principles, and the universal laws and patterns that govern all of Nature. You will learn how Nature works as you design your project!
What it does
- Illuminates where energy is flowing, stuck and leaking in your current setup
- Maps your project across all seven domains, so you can clearly see what’s working and what needs attention
- Applies the twelve regenerative design principles as a structural check at each phase
- Produces a clear strategy at the end — and a sequence you can implement starting immediately
This is a complete process — sequenced, cumulative, and designed to move you from diagnosis to a strategy you can actually act on.
Who it’s for
Founders, Creators, Entrepreneurs. Businesses navigating growth in a rapidly changing world. Land projects and retreat centers designing for long-term resilience. Community leaders and organizers building something that brings many elements together. Anyone who wants to think in terms of regenerative whole-systems design.
What’s inside
- Eleven phases, moving you from observation + diagnosis to design + implementation strategy.
- Core design concepts explained; drawn from the intelligence of Nature and the wisdom of regenerative / whole-systems / permaculture design.
- A pattern library + set of universal laws and design principles that you’ll return to again and again to ideate, prototype and design with.
- Core exercises for mapping external forces, internal elements, assets and resources, pacing and growth of your project / system.
- Questions to work through for each phase, alone or with your team.
- A Syntropia example showing how we apply this process directly to our own practice.
Work through it once for a full strategy, or use individual sections whenever a specific part of your project / system needs attention.
NOW IN BETA
Eleven Phases. Self-Guided.
Digital PDF.
Frequently asked questions
No — this is self-guided. The workbook contains the same process we use with clients, written so you can run it yourself. If you want us in the room with you, that’s what the Strategic Design Session and deeper engagements are for.
As long as you need. There’s no deadline and no expiry — work through all eleven phases in a week or return to it over months as your project evolves.
No. You need a real project and the willingness to look at it clearly. The principles and pattern library are explained as you go.
Both, and community projects too. The seven domains, twelve principles and universal laws are — universal, they hold whether you’re designing a landscape, an organization, or anything else between the two.
Move on and come back. The phases build on each other, but the workbook is yours to use non-linearly if that serves your process better.
Yes. Some clients complete the workbook first and bring their transition strategy into a Strategic Design Session; others start there and use the workbook afterward to keep the work moving.
As this is a standalone product, we don’t offer refunds, however we welcome comments and feedback at info @syntropia.ca.